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Identity Publications Travel As Transformation by Gregory V Diehl Foreword by David J Wright
Warning: not your standard travel book a solo travelers philosophical memoirs on the personal development effects of cultural expansion. A daring intelligent and unapologetic call to find yourself through travel.When you travel to a foreign place do you experience this new life as your old self? Or do you become a new version of you? From living in a van on the streets of San Diego to growing chocolate with indigenous tribes in Central America to teaching in the Middle East and volunteering in Africa bestselling author Gregory V. Diehl has followed a worldly and unconventional path through life. Leaving his California home as a teenager he fully immersed himself living and working in 45 countries across the globeall by age 28. In Travel As Transformation he puts his diverse cultural experiences on display and asks the reader to question how their own identity has been shaped by the lifestyle they live.As you delve into Travel As Transformation you will learn just how profoundly solo travel can influence your perception of yourself. Diehl teaches aspiring solo travelers vagabonds and nomads to let go of their internal inhibitions and former sense of self. To encourage world wanderers to embrace change he shares his own stirring experiences of transformation across Costa Rica China Morocco Armenia Iraq Monaco Ecuador and more. By embarking on this nomadic journey alongside him you will learn to examine all of humanity through unbiased eyes and discover all that lies just beyond your backyard. A new vast cultural experience awaits.To travel alone with a truly open mind is to forget who you were when you started. It is to be constantly born anew and identify with ways of existence you did not know were possible. Travel As Transformation will give you the wisdom the inspiration and the resources to conquer the limitations placed on you by your home culture. Its time to take advantage of everything the world has to offer and become everything you can be. Find yourself through Travel As Transformation.show more